Founded | 2009 |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Headquarters location | Hull |
Distribution | Marston Book Services (UK) Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US) NewSouth Books (Australia) Pansing Distribution (Singapore) [1] |
Publication types | Books |
Imprints | The Robson Press |
Official website |
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Biteback Publishing is a British publisher based in Hull concentrating mainly on political titles. It was incorporated, as a private limited company with share capital, in 2009. [2] It was jointly owned by its managing director Iain Dale [3] and by Michael Ashcroft's Political Holdings Ltd, [4] [2] until 2018 when Dale stepped down to focus on his television and radio work. [5] Biteback Publishing has published several books by Ashcroft including Call Me Dave, his controversial 2015 biography of David Cameron. [6]
Other titles include Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier (2013) by James Wharton, [7] The Left's Jewish Problem (2016) by Dave Rich, and Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World (2017) by investigative journalist James Ball. [8]
As of 2014 around 20% of the company's sales are ebooks. [9]